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Suggested by @Yeti and seconded by me (I think he was reading my mind), we've hatched a plan to keep us playing over the LoCkDoWn period.

The basic idea is - 3 rounds of a weekly challenge. We'll be using a small selection of 30-60s backing tracks for you to noodle over.

You'll have 5 days to come up with something, 2 days to vote and after the three rounds - we'll have weekly winners and a overall winner. And @Yeti was thinking a grand prize of a pack of Toilet paper...hmmm, he's a funny guy 😄

Initially we'll have two groups, DAW and Live Jam. For the DAW category, use your toys, but noodling/solo'ing is to be one track only (in addition to the backing track). For Live Jam, just crank up the backing track and record using cell phone (or similar device)

So to kick it off...will y'all help get together some backing tracks (4 max per week) and we'll kick off the challenge's first week on 31st March.

Let's try and keep the backing tracks simple-ish - let's say a 8-16 bar loop maxing out at 60seconds?. All & Any genres welcome!

Feel free to trawl your Challenge entries (or other people's) for potential loops/tracks or find something that you like out there. Let's try and steer away from copyrighted material, it makes using SoundCloud a tad tricky!

Feel free to PM ne with questions (or poke me on whatsapp) - post your backing tracks on Soundcloud and let's keep that racoon waiting...

Thanks for setting this up @V8, this should be fun. 😃
I'll contribute a backing track to the firs round, will get it to you in the next day or so.

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All righty - to kick it off...here's my first backing track submission.

BPM: 110
Length: 24 Bars
Key: E minor (I think!) .

4 Bars of drumless pre-chorus, 16 Bars (drums, bass, guitars) of chorus, 4 bars of funky sh1t (it wouldn't be me any other way).

The (pre) & chorus is - E5, G#/A, A5, G5, F#/G.
Or if I try and explain it in words (becasue my theory knowledge is kak!)
E5= E powerchord,
G#/A = G power chord with the root down a fret (4th fret low e string),
A5 = A powerchord (you move your index finger up a fret from previous chord)
G5 = G powerchord
F#/G = G powerchord with your index finger dropping the root down a fret.

This is the section of my original track where I reaallly wanted to put a solo in - but didn't have the time or courage to ask anyone to to help me out.

Here's my rough and ready backing track contribution. Amin, 120bpm. Chord progression as follows:
Am E7 F C E7
Am E7 F C G
Am E7 F C E7
Am E7 F G

Am G F C E7
Am G F G

Yeti thats also groovy... cool stuff.

So i wasnt really understanding the ask.. i get it now though.. will see if I can throw something together this weekend

  • V8 replied to this.

      guidothepimmp So i wasnt really understanding the ask.. i get it now though..

      All I wanted to do was get something in before @Yeti 😃 Beenb meaning to get back to this tune sometime...I kinda have a master plan, we'll see if the bait works or not.

      Dig to hear something from ya!

      • Yeti replied to this.

          really interesting initiative guys 🙂 am going to definitely see about getting stuck in.

          Heres a jangly loop i threw together quickly.

          Its a run of the mill rock groove at 100bpm in the key of A.

          Quite simple,
          A, G, D - verse
          A, C, D - Chorus
          A, G, F# something or other for the weird break

          ... I think.

          Basically a Tele into a Vox AC

          Thats awesome @guidothepimmp, you always have such fantastic tone. My 2c, I think it's a little long for this challenge. Might be worth cutting it a little to get closer to 1:00?

          guidothepimmp Heres a jangly loop i threw together quickly.

          That real cool - as @Yeti said, could you grab the 1min you'd feel you'd want to have the leads & solo's to fit?

          Keeping shorter will keep peeps focused on tighter leads/solo's (that's the thinking anyways) - I know I got about (at most!) 10s of original ideas and then I'll repeat ad-nauseating 🤣

            Ohhhh... ok.. now i get it. I didnt realise it was just the loop part for the solo bit... righto.. lemme shorten it

              guidothepimmp

              Right, so i cannot fathom how to edit the post, apologies for the double post. Here is the shortened loop;

              Basically as above, has a verse (A, G, D), a chorus (A, C, D), and then the break in key of A as well , presumably where the whiddly bits would go

                Apologies my dudes, I did forget to ask everyone to make their loop/backing track downloadable...opppsss!

                It's prettyyy dang simple to do - go to your track on SC, underneath the track you'll see a button "Edit'. When ya click on that that you'll get to your track's "Basic Info". Click on the permissions tab and you'll see the screenshot below - we want to enable "Direct Downloads" - Yip where that red arrow is ppinting. Enable that and save. Then we can d/l the track to use (and abuse!)

                Thanks guys!

                8 days later

                Right-o, another plea for backing tracks - we've only two fresh ones (thanks @Stoffeltoo) including this mish mash of mine...

                BPM:130
                Key: A
                Bars: 37 (1 bar drum intro, 12 bars relaxed blues, 2x12 bars of more rocking blues.
                ).

                It's a edit of something I did a very long time ago (2014?) for the "Action Challenge" - I was aiming for a mix of house muzak and blues. Errmmm...yeah, well - it seemed like a good idea a the time...

                Heres a quick and dirty boogie woogie at 180BMP in Am... perfect for you vintage shredders